Social Movements

Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader expands on standard studies of social movements by offering a collection of writings that is exclusively anthropological in nature and global in its focus-thereby serving as an invaluable tool for instructors and students alike. Based on fieldwork carried out on four continents - North America, South America, Africa, and Asia - and in 14 countries Includes articles that address problems ranging from global health and the spread of diseases; loss of control over basic resources such as water and fuel; militarization; to the repression of indigenous peoples and of women Offers solutions formulated by local peoples

Acknowledgments. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Social Movements and Global Processes: June Nash (City University New York). Part I: Fragmentation and the Recomposition of Civil Society. 2. When Networks Don’t Work: Marc Edelman (City University New York). 3. The State and the Right Wing: The Village Scout Movement in Thailand: Katherine A. Bowie (University of Wisconsin-Madison). 4. Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity: Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon). 5. Activism and Class Identity: The Saturn Auto Factory Case: Sharryn Kasmir (Hofstra University). Part II: Secularization and Fundamentalist Reactions. 6. Print Islam: Media and Religious Revolution in Afghanistan: David B. Edwards (Williams College). 7. Local Islam Gone Global: The Roots of Religious Militancy in Egypt and its Transnational Transformation: James Toth (Northeastern University). 8. Nationalism and Militarism in West Papua: Institutional Power, Interpretive Practice, and the Pursuit of Christian Truth: Danilyn Rutherford (University of Chicago). 9. The Sarvodaya Movement’s Vision of Peace and a Dharmic Civil Society: George Bond (Northwestern University). Part III: Deterritorialization and the Politics of Place. 10. Ethnic Resurgence: Autonomy Movements against Deterritorialization: June Nash (City University New York). 11. Resiliance of Nationalism in a Global Era: Megaprojects in Mexico’s South: Molly Doane (Marquette University). 12. The Politics of Place: Legislation, Civil Society and the ‘Restoration" of the Florida Everglades: Max Kirsch (Florida Atlantic University). 13. "Land, Water, and Truth": San Identity and Global Indigenism: Renée Sylvain (University of Guelph). Part IV: Privatization, Individualization, and Global Cosmopolitanism. 14. The Fair Trade Movement: Changing the Rules of Trade with Global Partnership: Kimberly M. Grimes (University of Delaware). 15. "The Water is Ours, Carajo!": Deep Citizenship in Bolivia’s Water War: Robert Albro (Wheaton College). 16. From the Cosmopolitan to the Personal: Women’s Mobilization with Respect to HIV/AIDS: Ida Susser (City University of New York). 17. Political Organization among Indigenous Women of the Amazonia: Ligia Simonian (Federal University of Pará). 18. At Home in the World: Women’s Activism in Hyderabad, India: Deepa Reddy (University of Houston-Clear Lake). Index